Roly polies

The advent of 'time-saving devices' and it's relationship with obesity increase:

I've just watched a young family (that's a family that is in the early stages, not necessarily young parents with a kid, although describing parents as young could be said to be describing their age AS parents so perhaps all is well...) walk past our local internet cafe, Berts (a French chain apparently, so one must pronounce 'Bair-se', as opposed to the more Anglo-Saxo, 'Buurts') with their young daughter on a bike. Great - a bike; she's starting to learn about exercise, about balance, energy, muscle use, blah blah... Nope; this is an electric bicycle. Specially designed so little Tabatha doesn't have to strain any of her delicate muscles by using them to ride a bike. Thank Dog.

This reminded me of my idea of why we are all becoming more and more obese in general even though some of us drink Diet sodas, go to the gym, etc. ONE of the reasons, if you ask me, for that obesity is the rise of electrical powered stuff. Where men used to push their lawnmowers to cut the grass, they now drive it/or let it drive. Where housekeepers used to wash plates by hand, now they stretch their arms to fill the dishwasher. Where we used to cycle/walk to the local shop to get some milk, we either don't go to the local shop anyway OR we drive 500m to the shop. Are we really that lazy? Personally, when i have a garden in the future, i will be pushing my lawnmower just like my dear ol' Papa. I'm not proposing that we all drop all our electrical things, but look - keeping our bodies in shape can be about the little things we do; lifting heavy shopping, going up stairs instead of escalators at the airport, etc. etc.

Don't even get me started with people who take the lift in buildings to go from one floor to the next!

We're all going to end up like those people in the Incredibles.. roly poly fat &^%£s